By Abhishek Takle SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team will be looking for lost speed as Formula One wraps up its Asian leg in Japan this weekend. The championship leader is thankful to have extended his advantage over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to 34 points with five races remaining but he is […]
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Nigeria, Egypt and Tunisia could all book their spots at next year’s World Cup in the penultimate round of African qualifiers at the weekend but the other two slots will only be decided next month. A home victory over Zambia – a side they beat away at the […]
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(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal came within a whisker of making an opening-round exit at the China Open on Tuesday as he was pushed to three sets by Frenchman Lucas Pouille before winning 4-6 7-6(6) 7-5. The world number one, who was beaten by Pouille the last time they met at the 2016 U.S. Open, lost […]
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(Reuters) – World number two Simona Halep set up a mouth-watering third- round clash with Maria Sharapova at the China Open after the Romanian’s opponent Magdalena Rybarikova retired due to illness trailing 6-1 2-1 on Tuesday. Halep survived a break point in the opening game before powering her way to a 5-0 lead with two […]
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – World champions New Zealand face a difficult battle to squeeze in time for recovery and preparation ahead of their last game in this year’s Rugby Championship against South Africa at Newlands on Saturday, hooker Dane Coles said. The majority of the squad arrived on Monday after a long […]
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By Rik Sharma MADRID (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Catalan defender Gerard Pique was targeted by angry Spain fans on Monday as he took part in an open training session with the national team the day after the Catalonia independence referendum that was declared illegal by the Government. Centre-back Pique, who voted in the referendum and has […]
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By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa will again rely heavily on experienced prop Tendai Mtawarira in whict they expect to be a bruising scrum confrontation with New Zealand in the Rugby Championship on Saturday. The powerfully-built Zimbabwe-born loosehead prop, a cult figure in South Africa whose nickname is chanted by spectators when […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Wales forward Gareth Bale has been ruled out of their crucial last two World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Ireland due to a calf injury, The Football Association of Wales (FAW) said on Tuesday. Bale, who missed Real Madrid’s weekend league game against Espanyol, had arrived with the rest of the Wales […]
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(Reuters) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been warned not to rush his Manchester United return by surgeon Freddie Fu Ho-keung, who operated on his knee in May. Ibrahimovic has not played since suffering a career-threatening knee ligament injury in United’s Europa League quarter-final second leg match against Anderlecht at Old Trafford in April. “He (Zlatan) is […]
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – When fitness trackers alone fail to get families moving enough, turning step counts into a competition might help people get more exercise, a small experiment suggests. Researchers gave fitness trackers to 200 adults and asked them to set daily step count goals to increase their activity levels. All had […]
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POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa have called up uncapped Dane Paterson to replace injured strike bowler Morne Morkel in their squad for the second test against Bangladesh starting in Bloemfontein on Friday, Cricket South Africa announced on Monday. Morkel is out for the next six weeks after suffering a tear to his left […]
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend after the “Trial of the Century,” was released early on Sunday from a prison in Nevada, where he had been held since 2008 for a botched armed robbery at a Las Vegas casino hotel. The state’s Department […]
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